Some months ago, PJ Media submitted a Freedom of Information request to the Department of Justice. The request asked for all of the communications between the Office of Public Affairs and the Soros-funded Media Matters about Katie Pavlich’s must-read book Fast and Furious. The Office of Public Affairs is headed by the notorious screamer Tracy Schmaler.

Anyone who has followed the Fast and Furious scandal closely knows that the Office of Public Affairs has been central to deceiving the public and bullying inquisitive reporters. Thug tactics unbecoming of the Department of Justice have become standard at the Office of Public Affairs.

Despite the fact that PJ Media’s original request was clearly identified as directed to the Office of Public Affairs, the DOJ routed the request to the Civil Rights Division, which on its face has absolutely nothing to do with the request. That’s called buying time.

Finally, DOJ has at last responded to PJ Media’s request, sort of. The response letter says that precisely a single document exists responsive to our request.

A single document?

PJ Media had to sue DOJ to pry documents from them before. It seems they haven’t learned the lesson.

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“Of course Gertz and Schmaler may be so close that she is using a personal email account that escapes our FOIA. Or, DOJ is simply lying when it says a single document is responsive. These days, it’s hard to know which is more likely.”

Probably not FOIAble.
In a criminal investigation or administrative investigation, the Govt would have access to the employee’s hard drive and any server that backed up other computers.
For FOIA, it can only give you the “official” emails, i.e. those on the govt network (doj.gov or whatever).
Personal emails are like notes written on a desk or a personal agenda or a personal phone call… They remain personal unless mischief of a criminal or administrative nature is suspected. Administrative nature: Running a personal business on the job; harassing another employee who does not like you as much as you like “it” etc…

Gertz? Schmaler? Jews? Notice the pattern now enforced on Americans. 97% of gun-violence perps in NYC are non-white. Get on cable and watch 20 “Law & Order” episodes. Compare the statistics, but don’t dare mention them to anyone. The recent series of flash-mob lootings? 100% black. You can watch videos. Speak no evil. The “knock-out game”? Strictly black-on-white attacks. You know nothing. Nothing!!! The simple fact that human life on earth is based on family, clan, tribe, nation, and race is as verboten as the fact that a previous period of global warming (1,000 AD to 1350 AD) is AKA the Medieval Climatic Optimum, not a catastrophe. Leftist theory is based on one big lie (encompassed by the term “Enlightenment”). Leftism is a world of lies. That’s why all Leftist regimes end up as totalitarian, because they must outlaw the truth. All the truth; all the time. This is no part-time job. My observation of the “New Media” leads me to conclude that Conservatives, moderates. Libertarians, Liberals, leftists , and Communists are all agreed on perpetuating most of the same lies. Only Rightists are still willing to look at the world as it was, is, and always will be, and tell the truth (which, oddly enough, is that the world was, is, and always will be….. the real world). People who believe marriage between men, animals, inflatable sex-dolls, or any other combination of objects (and it’s all coming soon), is just fine and dandy are demi-human freaks, and watch out if you turn over their particular rocks.

Dishman wrote: “That’s the entire e-mail? No greeting, no explanation, no name of the sender?”

Of course, e-mail would include the e-mail addresses of the sender and receiver.

OTOH, in e-mail I find “greetings” more annoying than anything — usually insincere cruft.
Though I do enjoy the occasional “signature” quote at the end.

I would suspect that the lack of “explanation” is one of the signs of an ongoing exchange, to which JCA referred. As one of a string of messages the context would be in the other messages and need not be repeated.

It’s just odd enough to be suspicious, but you have to have evidence to get evidence, to make a more specific FOIA request that would yield any relevant information.

The full time fanatical that brings steady income (even if small compared to real work) seems similar to the fetid activity of the various Red cells of communists anarchists and anti royalists of 100 years ago. The various flavors of social democrats the anarchists and the few willing to do whatever terror required…. Of course the masters of social reform became their own ossified privilege loving jealously guarding each layer of the strata. Merit is replaced with favoritism and connections. Yes we have seen it, or read about it in our history books. This group is no different. For those who have read deeply of the Russian Revolution its aftermath and its international áctivities following WWII up to the end… Well the pattern of lies spin half truths and denials comes like history reborn and alive. What they all fail to appreciate is the nature of the each American. We love our independence. We are not ashamed of the “Yahoo ” portion of our history and character. We enjoy the spectacle of liars frauds and charlatans spinning fantasied in the air for educated and sophisticated fools to purchase. It is pleasant to watch our “betters ” discover their new clothes are but ego and pride.

One President said “You can fool all of the people some of the time. You can fool some of the people all of the time. But you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. ” Americans enjoy the show. We let almost anyone parade around. We may even buy some for a while. But you have to resonate with or character to get us to buy again and again. That is why foriegn seeds fail to flourish.

It is easy to know what is more likely. It is standard Holder procedure. ” Screw the Creeps! Go head: sue – waste your money on lawyers. We don’t pay any attention to Congressional Committee requests. Why do you think we’d give anything to right wing scum?”

My recent blog commentary ‘Leftist Dogma the Same World Over…Freedom-Loving People, Beware…’ is of piece with a misnamed Department of ‘Justice’, and their collusion with a misnamed ‘media’. BOTH entities are no longer what they seem. Entering – Orwell’s universe.

We better get a lot of coffee going brother, because we have a LOT OF WORK TO DO!! Day by day they attack our natural human rights in the name of total power. Stay on them Mr. Adams and continue to keep us informed!

I find the administration to be more frightening each day. Thugs and goons installed in impoertant placed with the sworn enemy the American people. Our overlords will fight to hang on to power and will continue to grab more and more control over our everyday lives – with no accountability to the people they serve. How did this happen in only election? I blame in large measure a compliant and supportive press, willing to help create and sustain the mythical narrative that is Obama.

Four years ago as a candidate swooning adoring crowds with his Hope and Change motif, then Senator Barack Hussein Obama repeatedly promised transparency of gubmint, and this is what we get? It’s odd how our news entertainers, even ones such as Hannity, dismiss the Administration’s serial opacity as to be expected and not meriting further inquiry.

What, do even our RINO news entertainers expect the lazy and inarticulate Mitt to direct his highly paid staff to dig into this? C’mon, the dude spent six years at Harvard; that means he took a total of nearly 500 electro-shock treatments to his brain, and that’s where the ganglia housing human conscience is located.

There are dozens of examples besides PJ’s case here, if they’re fearful that this latest example of opacity would be poisoned by its association with conservative activist organization.

If a Republican Administration had pulled half the stunts the current one has, you would hear a concerted chorus of condemnation from the LSM. The Fourth Estate has abdicated its role in a free society, and as for the rule of law, ObamaRx makes Tricky Dick Nixon look like a choir boy.

how can you ever be even remotely sure you get the stuff you ask for from the DoJ or any Obama administration.

without the rule of law isn’t this the least possible path to truth.

from the vote rigging to the executive orders.

thanks for your work exposing their dishonesty. still I think that unless there is a change at the top things will get worse. The congress and the senate have been aiding and abetting obama and many of those are GOP

Here’s a question for Mr. Adams that I’ve wondered about for as long as we’ve known about Fast and Furious:

Why hasn’t (or have they?) Holder simply destroyed or consigned to the ether incriminating documents or e mails. I know Issa has demanded communications between so-and-so related to this and that, but how can he know the extent of the documentation he seeks?

I’m thinking this because I suspect Holder is sitting on some bombshells he cannot let Issa see that Issa may only suspect exists. Why is getting rid of the evidence your opponent needs to nail you more dangerous than holding on to it and possibly being forced to give it up at some point?

Mr. Adams may have another explanation but in my experience the DOJ is afraid that if it destroys something or denies the existence of something, Issa will show up with a leaked copy of what they’re denying. Democrats have better document security than Republicans because the bureaucracy is likely to be more loyal to Democrats and Democrats are notoriously ruthless in dealing with leakers and employees who don’t toe the Party line. Also, the media leans Democrat and often won’t run stories damaging to Democrats based on leaked documents and often cooperate with Democrats in slime attacks on the “disgruntled employee,” usually “disgruntled former employee” by the time anything comes to light.

It is truly remarkable that Issa does have leaked documents and “sources” inside the government – if he still does have sources inside. Generally, Democrats will hunt down a leaker and dispatch them like a rabid dog. For a Republican government, you can always assume that if the media or some Democrat front group is asking for something, they already have it and are trying to legitimize using it or trying to protect their source. I always assumed that anything I did on my government’s network was in the hands of the opposition before it was in the hands of the intended recipient and I tried very hard to avoid putting anything advisory, analytical, or deliberative in writing. When forced to do briefing or decision memoranda, I made canary copies with discrete changes in the text from copy to copy or distinctive markings so that WHEN, not if, it leaked, I knew who did it. I’ve also gone as far as writing complex decision or briefing memos full of utter BS for the sole purpose of leaving them on a copier in the capitol.

Could it be he holds on to them because he knows they will not be in power forever and remembers a certain 16 minutes of tape? If all the good stuff disappears they would never give up thinking it could have been even worse than they thought.

Also that they, like all self-impressed national socialists who have been to the “chosen” fountain think they are so utterly brilliant that they want everything documented “for posterity” on how they brought down the “evil, imperialistic and selfish” nation known as the United States.

Just like the Nazis and their third reich “historians” the stuff they kept on file ultimately hanged them in the long run.

This is a particular kind of arrogance where the doers-of-bad-deeds think they are actually setting the world to right. They therefore want credit and make sure their documents are rife with mention of their names, even though they instinctively know that what they’re doing is illegal, immoral and unjust. But…in their fantasy, the “new world order” will find them vindicated and their methods somehow justified. So for all the upcoming history books, they want all the details in there so that when they are looked at from a proletariat viewpoint, they will be champions of the movement and heralded with statues and city squares named after them.

Exactly my thoughts when it was becoming clear that the administration was dispersing anyone at DOJ with operational knowledge of F & F into the bowels of the bearucratic rat maze. Transferred into oblivion. Probably with big fat taxpayer funded raises.

Here is the deal with F & F that is different than any other corruption case in American history: Capital crimes were committed that could possibly carry the death penalty. Treason is a given in the matter at face value. It could also be legally construed to be an act of war against Mexico in violation of the War Powers Act.

But then again, when you attempt to rationalize the pure scope of the evil intent and intended purpose of this program, and look at it at it’s most base level…

It is actually a declaraton of war on the USA. Mexico is only a proxy.

As a former bureaucrat, let me translate DOJs letter: We have “searched” our computerized records using the title of the book, and found only this one instance. This is a stalling tactic, of course, or we would have had a real person go through the files using more than one search parameter. But the response is absolutely true, in a limited (but legal) sense “honest”.

If Team Obama loses the election in November I’d place a small wager that there will be a document shredding party at DOJ during the month of December. I think you can count on Holder and crew to hide/destroy all of the smoking guns, (pun intended), otherwise they might very well face serious jail time.

I also want to see all of Obama’s political appointees being run out of the DOJ on a rail covered in tar and feathers.

Holder will be pardoned by Dear Leader. However, I wonder what Holder will do to stay out of Mexico? I think he could be prosecuted in Mexico as an accomplice for how many hundreds of murders? Maybe he’ll take Obama down with him. He’s got nothing to lose and everything to gain. Barry, Chelle and Eric in Apodaca prison.

Asking co-conspirators to the overthrow about the communications between and among them concerning the overthrow is going to produce …stonewalling, obfuscation, distortion, lies, propaganda. Then again, that’s precisely what we are getting from ALL of the entrenched media, hollywood and academia now anyway.

The conspiracy by the Fabian Socialists (or Bill Ayers term, small c communists)to overthrow the free market democracy that was America until 2008 is in full throat currently.

Soros and the hyper-radical wing were Furious that it wasn’t going Fast enough. When the small c communists had the country by the throat for two years with all three houses, they wanted to pummel this country into submission.

Obama, however, has been fighting with that wing for decades. Under the Alynski tutelage line of thinking, you NEVER expose your hand until it is too late for the other side to resist. You cloak all your moves behind soft pastel masks and “do-gooder” sweet nothings, whispered in the ears of the unwary. Government by ambush.

The DOJ is now fully operational as an arm of the Fabians. It is littered with people who care not one whit for the Constitution, much less any of the “lesser laws” like FOIA.

No, of course there is not just a single document responsive to the request. There are thousands. Perhaps hundreds of thousands of communications, written, oral, texted, ….there were over 400 JournOlistas who were meeting in secret and are now likely passing notes like KGB spies in discarded bottles, briefcases filled with leaks and national secrets, and all manner of overthrow espionage.

Cass Sunstein wants to jail you for talking about it.

Van Jones thinks your an !%$!$^&.

And…we can’t get the message out…because those who control the mass portions of our information stream…are the biggest traitors of all.

From a longer view, it took decades to unravel the crimes of the Nazis, even after their unconditional surrender. Historians and prosecutors poured over the libraries of documents and cross referenced them. It took generations to similarly unravel the KBG and Stasi et al crimes, even imperfectly, after the collapse of the USSR, and the brief open window into their national files. In this case, the efforts by Congressman Issa, and ex insider Mr. J. C. Adams, via his FOIA demands, seem, by historical comparison, lightening bolt quick. This is the job of a bull dog and a guy who knows inside baseball. It is beyond the knowledge, or resources of average Americans.

However, it is in keeping with the spirit of those who gave their lives to conquer Nazis, and Stalin’s Communism. Last week, I carried a casket holding a 93 year old vet, a Marine who in his late teens, fought through Guadalcanal, Guam, and other unpleasant places in the mid 1940s. It is the common struggle against lies, and bullies. It deeply saddens me that the scoundrels are US government employees, not foreigners, but such is life.

We must keep fighting, one foot at a time, one email at a time. We owe it to those who died, and Americans yet to be born.

Now, we have Twitter down right after Google social service was attacked. It would be fruitless to ask the present Attorney General to look into this problem for his office my well be glad that we aren’t able to communicate.

I have a dream, Romney wins and appoints J Christian Adams attorney general, Bolton as secretary of state, Arpaio as head of DHS. Does anybody else have nominations for a dream team? My three is a democratic nightmare.

The Klu Klux Klan was founded as a Democrat proxy group. Many black Americans served in the U.S. Goverment in the 1800′s and beyond as part of the “Radical Republican” party. In 1912 the ‘Progressive’ Democrat, President Woodrow Wilson instituted racial segregation into the Federal Government. Many blacks were subsequently pushed out of the Federal Government.

It’s time, is it not Mr. Adams, to send a letter to the Obama administration alerting them to the fact that no documents that relate to investigations underway be destroyed; which includes any materials that might be used to incriminate them?

If Obama loses on Nov. 6, the leftist miscreants will leave no incriminating materials behind, and simply say after the fact that they were destroyed by accident.